Changes in Earth’s orbit drive long-term glacial cycles, but a new forecast suggests this ancient pattern is being disrupted for tens of thousands of years due to human-induced global warming ...

For many millions of years, our planet has experienced glacial periods followed by warmer periods. A crucial role in these ...

Research indicates that delicate deepwater corals tolerated or adapted to major climate and salinity fluxes, “yet today, it’s ...

"Such a transition to a glacial state in 10,000 years' time is very unlikely to happen, because human emissions of carbon ...

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For millions of years, Earth's climate has been driven by natural cycles linked to its orbit, shifting between ice ages and ...

"We found a predictable pattern over the past million years for the timing of when Earth's climate changes between glacial 'ice ages' and mild warm periods like today, called interglacials," Lorraine ...

If you’ve ever looked at Mars through a telescope, you probably noticed its two polar ice caps. The northern one is made largely of water ice—the most obvious sign that Mars was once a wetter, warmer ...

Rather than relying on the given precision of paleoproxy age models, Stephen Barker and colleagues took a novel approach by analyzing the morphology of the beginning and end of glacial periods ...

By analyzing satellite images of almost 1700 documented glacial lake floods in 13 glacier regions around the world over a period from 1990 to 2023 they found that the areas of ice dammed lakes ...